J/A+A/689/A148ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/689/A148doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36890148CDSSaito R.K.Hempel M.Alonso-Garcia J.Lucas P.W.Minniti D.Alonso S.,Baravalle L.Borissova J.Caceres C.Chene A.N.Cross N.J.G.,Duplancic F.Garro E.R.Gomez M.Ivanov V.D.Kurtev R.Luna A.,Majaess D.Navarro M.G.Pullen J.B.Rejkuba M.Sanders J.L.,Smith L.C.Albino P.H.C.Alonso M.V.Amores E.B.Angeloni R.,Arias J.I.Arnaboldi M.Barbuy B.Bayo A.Beamin J.C.Bedin L.R.,Bellini A.Benjamin R.A.Bica E.Bonatto C.J.Botan E.Braga V.F.,Brown D.A.Cabral J.B.Camargo D.Caratti O Garatti A.,Carballo-Bello J.A.Catelan M.Chavero C.Chijani M.A.Claria J.J.,Coldwell G.V.Pena C.C.Ramos R.C.Corral-Santana J.M.Cortes C.C.,Cortes-Contreras M.Cruz P.Daza-Perilla I.V.Debattista V.P.Dias B.,Donoso L.D'souza R.Emerson J.P.Federle S.Fermiano V.Fernandez J.,Fernandez-Trincado J.G.Ferreira T.Lopes C.E.F.Firpo V.,Flores-Quintana C.Fraga L.Froebrich D.Galdeano D.Gavignaud I.,Geisler D.Gerhard O.E.Gieren W.Gonzalez O.A.Gramajo L.V.Gran F.,Granitto P.M.Griggio M.Guo Z.Gurovich S.Hilker M.Jones H.R.A.,Kammers R.Kuhn M.A.Kumar M.S.N.Kundu R.Lares M.Libralato M.,Lima E.Maccarone T.J.Cortes P.M.Martin E.L.Masetti N.,Matsunaga N.Mauro F.Mcdonald I.Mejias A.Mesa V.Milla-Castro F.P.,Minniti J.H.Bidin C.M.Montenegro K.Morris C.Motta V.Navarete F.,Molina C.N.Nikzat F.Castellon J.L.N.Obasi C.Ortigoza-Urdaneta M.,Palma T.Parisi C.Ramirez K.P.Pereyra L.Perez N.Petralia I.,Pichel A.Pignata G.Alegria S.R.Rojas A.F.Rojas D.Roman-Lopes A.,Rovero A.C.Saroon S.Schmidt E.O.Schroder A.C.Schultheis M.,Sgro M.A.Solano E.Soto M.Stecklum B.Steeghs D.Tamura M.,Tissera P.Valcarce A.A.R.Valotto C.A.Vasquez S.Villalon C.,Villanova S.Cadiz F.V.Bacigalupo R.Z.Zijlstra A.Zoccali M.2025-09-22T20:01:13Z2025-05-05T13:18:46ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frsurveysastrometryvisible-astronomyThe ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) surveyed the inner Galactic bulge and the adjacent southern Galactic disk from 2009-2015. Upon its conclusion, the complementary VVV extended (VVVX) survey has expanded both the temporal as well as spatial coverage of the original VVV area, widening it from 562 to 1700 sq. deg., as well as providing additional epochs in JHKs filters from 2016-2023. With the completion of VVVX observations during the first semester of 2023, we present here the observing strategy, a description of data quality and access, and the legacy of VVVX. VVVX took ~2000h, covering about 4% of the sky in the bulge and southern disk. VVVX covered most of the gaps left between the VVV and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) areas and extended the VVV time baseline in the obscured regions affected by high extinction and hence hidden from optical observations. VVVX provides a deep JHKs catalogue of >~1.5x10^9^ point sources, as well as a Ks band catalogue of ~10^7^ variable sources. Within the existing VVV area, we produced a 5D map of the surveyed region by combining positions, distances, and proper motions of well-understood distance indicators such as red clump stars, RR Lyrae, and Cepheid variables. In March 2023 we successfully finished the VVVX survey observations that started in 2016, an accomplishment for ESO Paranal Observatory upon 4200 h of observations for VVV+VVVX. 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